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Dharma Guns

2011 · 93 min

A dreamlike, fragmented journey through shifting identities and uncertain memories, demanding patience as it blurs reality and myth.

Directed by: F.J. Ossang
Genres: Drama, Thriller
Starring: Guy McKnight, Elvire, Lionel Tua

Overview: The film opens on a water-skiing accident - a girl (Délie) drives a speedboat and pulls a young man (Stan). They are both challenging their own limits when a crash occurs... Stan wakes up from a coma after this serious accident, to find out that genealogists are looking for an individual whose identity corresponds to his. Instead of asking himself questions about this testamentary filiation, he subscribes for Professor Starkov's legacy, and embarks for the country of Las Estrellas... Purging odyssey where intuition and telepathy accelerates the journey in time. Dharma Guns revisits the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice fighting with the tyranny of Time-God...

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Directed by: F.J. Ossang
Genres: Drama, Thriller
Starring: Guy McKnight, Elvire, Lionel Tua

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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
memory
death
obsession
fate
Places: big city
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Horror	2
Humour	1
Realism	4
Romance	4
Tension	5
Darkness	6
Complexity	8
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Genres: drama, thriller
Directed by: F.J. Ossang
Written by: F.J. Ossang
Starring: Guy McKnight, Elvire, Lionel Tua, Diogo Dória, Stéphane Ferrara, Alexandra Fournier, Patrick Bauchau, F.J. Ossang
Music: Jack Belsen
Cinematography: Gleb Teleshov
Runtime: 93 min
Country: France, Portugal
Languages: French

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